Eskişehir & Porsuk

“Come, let us be friends for once, let us make life easy on us / Let us be lovers and loved ones, the earth shall be left to no one,” says Yunus Emre. This dervish poet, who wove Turkish poetry into the heart of Anatolia, is held by many sources to rest in Sarıköy, in Eskişehir. But have you ever thought about how a stream flowing as gently as Yunus’s lines divides a city in two, and then brings it back together?